Parent got modded Flaimbait? He expressed my thoughts exactly! Great, a confession! Finally someone actually admits to it! Someone mod this guy flamebait too!:)
How exactly is the parent a troll? He's just stating his opinion. I love video games as much as the next person, but no, I don't consider them a sport either, does that make me a troll too?
Somebody comes in to the dealership, spends a whole bunch of my (or one of my co-workers') time going through the car, the options, etc. then has to leave to "think about it". I heard the owner of a camera store complain about the same thing recently, people would come into his store, ask about different cameras and ask him to demonstrate them and let them play with them for a bit. Then they'd leave "to think about it" and come back a few days later, asking specific questions on how to do certain things with the camera, making it obvious that they had already bought the camera cheaper online, where there's no display room and a salesperson to tell you about the cameras. Some people would actually bring their new camera to the store, telling the owner: "Hi again, yeah, I bought it online, but you answered all my questions before, so could you please tell me how to...?"
A shame that it has to be like that, really, because if enough people do it in the end it could mean he has to close down his store. I wonder if people don't understand that there's a reason it's cheaper to buy stuff online or whether they understand, but still would rather save a few bucks than support the store they went to.
Jeez, it's a joke, lighten up! If you're going to go through your entire life being insulted that easily, you're in for a rough ride and you're going to be missing out on a lot of fun!
Eek, modded down so many times! And you almost have a 5 digit user id, so you must have been doing this for a very long time! Well, you're certainly persistent! Have you considered a career in Jehovah's Witnesses? They keep coming to my house and I can't seem to get them to give up. I think you and they may have a lot in common, with the obvious exception that you're slightly more fanatic about your beliefs.:)
"Facts don't change with time" Really? So the earth is still flat and the sun revolves around it? Eh, what? It was never a fact that the Earth is flat and that the Sun revolves around it.
IMO he's right and you're wrong, although certain facts change over time, like how many people are alive. That is a fact that changes constantly, but just because some people believed other people could do magic hundreds of years ago, that doesn't make it a fact that anyone could. A fact is more than something you believe, a fact is the truth, regardless of whether we know the truth or not. Sometimes things we think are facts turn out not to be true, but that just means we were wrong about them being facts.
I met my neighbor for the first time today. She's a woman, I always thought she was a man. That doesn't make it a fact that my neighbor was a man yesterday, that's just what I thought. My neighbor was a woman yesterday too, that's a fact, I just thought differently at the time.
Where I live we had problems with that back when people were using modems to connect to the Internet, peoples' malware dialed expensive numbers in other countries. Their phone company was then billed by the foreign phone companies for those calls and they of course forwarded the bill to their customers who had made the calls.
However, some people actually sued the local phone companies, claiming that they hadn't made those calls, their PCs had, and hence they shouldn't have to pay anything.
Unfortunately, they won, and our phone company was stuck with the bill, which meant that all of us ended up paying for the people who couldn't control what numbers their PCs called.
The entire time I felt like: "Wait, why should I have to pay because other people buy machines they can't control and connect them to the phone lines?"
And as for the obligatory car analogy: If I buy a car I can't control and I destroy someone's property, I should pay for that. No judge would ever say: "Well, it wasn't him, it was his car that crashed into your house. You're welcome to sue the car."
Yet for some reason owning a PC doesn't come with the same responsibility. If you buy a PC, bring it home and connect it to your phone line and you get a big bill for all the numbers it has called, don't sue the phone company. If you absolutely have to sue someone for your "defect" machine, please sue Dell or Microsoft or whoever is responsible for your machine being "defect". Don't sue your phone company, because they bill you for the calls you made, that doesn't make any sense.
Ah, of course, reading the post again, it looked to me like he's making fun of something someone said and Google filled me in on the rest, no need to explain.:) My stupid little head is happy now.:)
I don't get it, why is that funny? I know Portal hasn't gotten terrific reviews, but it hasn't gotten terrible reviews either, someone please explain it to my stupid little head.:(
Combine that with a counter-weight that weighs the same as the elevator + half of what an average car weighs (if you assume that the elevator will be carrying a car every other trip) and you won't need a whole lot of energy to operate the elevator.
with no gravity... none Don't go there, someone's gonna be a jerk about it, better to just say "very low gravity" or something like that instead and avoid the trolls entirely.:)
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Ouch, I'm not American, but apart from that you nailed me perfectly. :(
In his defense, I have only just played Portal, so a week ago it would have been a real question. :)
So why does everyone keep saying the cake is a lie? It clearly isn't!
How exactly is the parent a troll? He's just stating his opinion. I love video games as much as the next person, but no, I don't consider them a sport either, does that make me a troll too?
A shame that it has to be like that, really, because if enough people do it in the end it could mean he has to close down his store. I wonder if people don't understand that there's a reason it's cheaper to buy stuff online or whether they understand, but still would rather save a few bucks than support the store they went to.
Jeez, it's a joke, lighten up! If you're going to go through your entire life being insulted that easily, you're in for a rough ride and you're going to be missing out on a lot of fun!
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Eek, modded down so many times! And you almost have a 5 digit user id, so you must have been doing this for a very long time! Well, you're certainly persistent! Have you considered a career in Jehovah's Witnesses? They keep coming to my house and I can't seem to get them to give up. I think you and they may have a lot in common, with the obvious exception that you're slightly more fanatic about your beliefs.
You know how they say the world's a small place? Well, he was assuming that the world is an infinitely small place. :)
http://www.gamepro.com/screen_gallery.cfm?globalId=131224 has 26 screenshots as well, all gorgeous. :)
Really? So the earth is still flat and the sun revolves around it? Eh, what? It was never a fact that the Earth is flat and that the Sun revolves around it.
IMO he's right and you're wrong, although certain facts change over time, like how many people are alive. That is a fact that changes constantly, but just because some people believed other people could do magic hundreds of years ago, that doesn't make it a fact that anyone could. A fact is more than something you believe, a fact is the truth, regardless of whether we know the truth or not. Sometimes things we think are facts turn out not to be true, but that just means we were wrong about them being facts.
I met my neighbor for the first time today. She's a woman, I always thought she was a man. That doesn't make it a fact that my neighbor was a man yesterday, that's just what I thought. My neighbor was a woman yesterday too, that's a fact, I just thought differently at the time.
Where I live we had problems with that back when people were using modems to connect to the Internet, peoples' malware dialed expensive numbers in other countries. Their phone company was then billed by the foreign phone companies for those calls and they of course forwarded the bill to their customers who had made the calls.
However, some people actually sued the local phone companies, claiming that they hadn't made those calls, their PCs had, and hence they shouldn't have to pay anything.
Unfortunately, they won, and our phone company was stuck with the bill, which meant that all of us ended up paying for the people who couldn't control what numbers their PCs called.
The entire time I felt like: "Wait, why should I have to pay because other people buy machines they can't control and connect them to the phone lines?"
And as for the obligatory car analogy: If I buy a car I can't control and I destroy someone's property, I should pay for that. No judge would ever say: "Well, it wasn't him, it was his car that crashed into your house. You're welcome to sue the car."
Yet for some reason owning a PC doesn't come with the same responsibility. If you buy a PC, bring it home and connect it to your phone line and you get a big bill for all the numbers it has called, don't sue the phone company. If you absolutely have to sue someone for your "defect" machine, please sue Dell or Microsoft or whoever is responsible for your machine being "defect". Don't sue your phone company, because they bill you for the calls you made, that doesn't make any sense.
Personally INIANAL. You figure it out. :)
This had me laughing the loudest:
"The Enrichment Center regrets to inform you that this next test is impossible.
Make no attempt to solve it."
[If you have trouble, or wait to solve the puzzle]
"The Enrichment Center apologizes for this clearly broken test chamber."
"Once again, the Enrichment Center offers it's most sincere apologies on the
occasion of this unsolvable test environment."
"Frankly, this chamber was a mistake. If we were you, we would quit now."
"No one will blame you for giving up. In fact, quitting at this point is a
perfectly reasonable response."
"Quit now and cake will be served immediately."
[When you finally solve the puzzle]
"Fantastic. You remained resolute and resourceful in an atmosphere of extreme
pessimism."
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/934386/50477
Because I'm stupid? :( I'm sorry. :(
Ah, of course, reading the post again, it looked to me like he's making fun of something someone said and Google filled me in on the rest, no need to explain. :) My stupid little head is happy now. :)
I don't get it, why is that funny? I know Portal hasn't gotten terrific reviews, but it hasn't gotten terrible reviews either, someone please explain it to my stupid little head. :(
Elevators are definitely technology IMO, they're just not NEW technology. :)
Combine that with a counter-weight that weighs the same as the elevator + half of what an average car weighs (if you assume that the elevator will be carrying a car every other trip) and you won't need a whole lot of energy to operate the elevator.
Yet people call ME a nerd. Why is life so unfair? :(
irony
-adjective
consisting of, containing, or resembling iron.
I'm going to have to go with SeaFox on this one. noidentity's post doesn't look like sarcasm to me, I'm pretty sure no joke was intended. :)